Tufts University researchers find that eating vegetables and fruits can help elderly men to protect against the bone loss that can cause hip fractures.

Study author Katherine Tucker, who is a professor of nutritional epidemiology at Tufts, said: “Vitamin C proves helpful to protect against inflammation that leads to bone absorption and bone loss and also considered essential for the creation of collagen that strengthens bones.”

The study will be published in The Journal of Nutrition in the October issue.

Katherine added, “There are some other studies that reached the same conclusion about fruits and vegetables, but we couldn’t separate vitamin C as a protective factor. Vitamin C also proved beneficial for some of the men in the study, but we can’t recommend the use of such supplements so soon.”

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Now a day itchy skin rash has become one of the most common skin problems, however some are simple and the rest are complicated due to derivative infections.

A part of inflamed and irritated skin can be called as rash. It is characterized by Itching, swelling, and redness. It is essential to know that, some chemicals and basic ingredients of skin care products can sometimes be the source of itchy skin rash.

There are so many forms of skin rashes. Dermatitis is the common rash characterized by inflammation, itching, redness, swelling, blistering, etc. For the treatment of itchy skin rashes you should have to consult to dermatologist, as he will guide, which is the best itchy skin cream for you.

There are different kinds of dermatitis (also known as eczema) that cause itchy skin rash. The most common form of dermatitis is atopic dermatitis.

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World leaders and philanthropists announced to give nearly $3bn to fight malaria. The meeting at the UN also looked at ways to meet the Millennium Development Goals that aimed to reduce poverty worldwide by 2015.

Donors are quite hopeful that the funds will be sufficient to wipe out malaria by that time.

The funds include $ 1.6bn from the Global Fund to fight Malaria, Tuberculosis and aids while the World Bank will provide $1.1bn.

The rest of the funding has been promised by the British government and private organization like Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Eating such foods as have high cholesterol levels can cause some serious health problems.
High cholesterol levels can not only result in a host of medical problems but they can also shorten your lifespan. That’s why it has become a growing problem all around the world whose monitoring is quite essential. The deadliest aspect of high cholesterol levels is that its symptoms are somewhat rare and more often undetectable before the occurrence of the tragic circumstances.

In many cases, high cholesterol levels become the cause of coronary disease that results in a symptom called ‘Angina’.  Usually, patients with Angina feel pain in chest and some patients also describe it as feeling a pressure or squeezing directly on their heart. This high cholesterol symptom may spread to the arm, neck or the jaw. Aside from these painful symptoms, patients with coronary disease often seem to report heart palpitations, lightheadedness, nausea, shortness of breath and dizziness.
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The US scientists say that antidepressants that are taken by millions of men to alleviate depression may harm their sperm.

The researchers gave the antidepressant paroxetine to a small number of healthy men for four weeks and found that these men had far higher levels of sperm with damaged DNA.

The outcomes of the study have been reported in New Scientist magazine and they do not necessarily indicate that these men would have serious problems to become a father. But a UK fertility specialist considers them a cause for concern.

In UK, Paroxetine is sold as Paxil or Seroxat and it is considered one of the most prescribed antidepressants.
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Few years back, high protein diet plans were popular only with athletes, but nowadays they are becoming more and more popular among regular dieters.

Normal people who do not take exercise can consume reasonably high amounts of protein foods while people on muscle building diets and athletes must consume at least I gram per lb of their bodyweight to build muscles properly.  Usually, bodybuilders and athletes include high protein foods in their daily diets as these foods help to rebuild the tissue that break down during workout.

No matter whether you want to build muscles or considering losing weight, you can achieve your goal easily with a high protein diet plan. If you consume high amounts of protein and low amount of carbohydrates, it’s not only help to maintain stable blood sugar levels but also slows down the burning of energy. Thus, it helps to maintain a healthy pancreas and healthy weight as well. Whereas such diets as are low in protein and high in carbohydrates, they lead a person to obesity. There are many studies, which prove that high protein and low-carb diets support weight loss.
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These days, dieting has become a fashion among teenagers as more and more teens tend to dieting no matter whether they are obese or not. Teenagers are at a critical development stage of their lives and their bodies need a sufficient amount of essential nutrients. If they deprive their bodies of these essential nutrients, dieting may bring more harm than good to them.  Another problem is the type of diet that teenagers are consuming as the use of fad diets is on increase in the teenage community. These sorts of diets are deigned to especially targeting the impatient audience as these diets offer quick fix that make people have them. Fad diets often become the cause of serious eating disorder in teens.

Mostly female are prone to develop an eating disorder as they are more body image conscious than male teenagers. Actually the reason is whenever these teenage girls turn on the television or open a magazine, they have to confront the “Barbie Doll’ look. When these girls try to possess the same look (that often proves an unattainable look in most cases.), they start dieting and want to get the desired results immediately.  It has become quite difficult for parents to monitor their teenagers eating habits, but they need to be watchful of the signs that begin to occur when an eating disorder develop.
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A new study on thyroid functionality may prove helpful for doctors to decide when to treat people with an underactive thyroid gland that doesn’t have any worrying symptoms.

Almost 27 million people in the US have some sort of thyroid problem and more than half of these people have not been diagnosed with the disease, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists says.

According to Dr. Anne R. Cappola, who is an assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, “At this point, it is not clear how to manage older people with subclinical thyroid dysfunction.” The findings of the study will be published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in its Sept.30 issue.
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To feel exhaust, light headed and lack of energy without any particular reason may be the signs of Anemia in some patients. Similarly, paleness around the eyes and gums, short of breath and anxiety are some other symptoms of the disease. Anemia is a medical condition that occurs because of Iron deficiency in the blood. Deficiency of vitamin B12, copper and folic acid in the body system may cause Anemia as well. Anemia can be very dangerous if it is not controlled properly.
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A new study suggests that women who suffered a miscarriage may be at a higher risk of getting it again if they are obese.

The researchers from St Mary’s Hospital London observed the progress of 696 women who were categorized by the researchers as “unexplained miscarriages”

The researchers stated in a conference in Canada that in obese women the risk of getting miscarriage again was increased by 73%.
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